let's not act like massive multinational corporations care about us, AMD is also ethically miserable, as is intel and everyone else.

sure, theoretically that's true, but do you want to risk google suing you and ruining your life?

The point of OSM is to be spotless, the data is 99% legally unquestionable

also have a look at related projects Panoramax and Kartaview, not to mention that you can just upload photos of specific objects/areas to wikimedia commons (you should just have some sort of subject in mind, even if that subject is "this street")

security by obscurity only made sense before we put high-resolution realtime spy satellites into orbit, and we covered our nations in hackable devices with cameras and sensors, and digitized documents containing sensitive information

It's been quite a while since the security argument held any significant weight.

Yeah this is honestly something i'd like to see a whole project around, adding stuff like fences and bits of grass or whatever is such a dead simple way to make maps more intuitive, and almost impossible to do wrong

i think you need to reword this because i can't figure out what you mean

It's always slightly bizarre seeing everyone in these circles be into masculine women and feminine guys; meanwhile i'm sitting here being almost exclusively attracted to broadly standard expressions of extreme femininity and extreme (hairless) masculinity, but somehow also really into dicks regardless of what it's attached to yet absolutely not even remotely into puss unless it's on a girl.

It feels like bringing an electric pennyfarthing to a convention for motorized unicycles

how ungodly massive are your repos that you'd be "wasting" a noticable amount of space?

you seem to have missed that forgejo actions exists, and codeberg provides free runners with no particular restrictions, just asking that you be mindful of your usage.

blocklist.enabled = True

the idea of Bugs Bunnies being a species of creature like werewolves is borderline horror

You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what OSM is, OSM is not a platform like google maps.

The core OSM project is just an open database of geographical data, of what exists in real life. Things like navigation and satellite imagery are not part of this, that's something separate that you add ontop of OSM.
And as part of the "open" part, any data added must be compatible with the odbl license, which means sources must first be verified as compatible, so any imports of government databases are oftentimes simply not legally possible and even if they are it's something you have to do quasi-manually since it's probably in a completely different format.

No one is talking about this because to anyone familiar with OSM this stuff is so obvious that they forget it isn't obvious to anyone else.